Texas Symbols Showdown

This Video Conference is for any Kindergarten teacher in the district. You will be creating a short poem to describe a Texas symbol. You will then read your poem to another class in the district via the video conferencing cart and that class will try to guess which symbol you are describing. Look at the attached file. It has the information you will need to get started. If you are interested, please sign up below for a time. You can find a partner on your own and have them sign up with you or wait and see if another teacher adds his/her name to the list.

(download the instructions)

Instructions:

Before the Video Conference:
1. In small groups: assign a different Texas symbol to the students in each group.
2. The students should write a descriptive poem about their symbol using the format.
3. The students should create an example of their symbol to show at the video conference.

Texas Symbols for Class A to describe and create:

1. Texas flag
2. Longhorn
3. Pecan Tree
4. Indian Paintbrush
5. Cowboy hat

Texas Symbols for Class B to describe and create:

1. Bluebonnet
2. Armadillo
3. Mockingbird
4. Cowboy
5. Rodeos

Descriptive Poem Format:
Always .
Always .
Never _.
Don’t .

What am I?

Example: (For the Texas flag)
Always have one star.
Always be red, white and blue.
Never be green.
Don’t have 50 stars.
What am I?



If you have any questions, please contact Paul Wagner: pwagner@lcisd.org or another CITS on your campus if you have one.



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